Center Methodist Church

From the post office in center of Houschton, take HWY 53 South for 1.3 miles to Jackson Trail Road (the street sign is a white concrete pillar and is hard to see so watch for it.). Turn left onto Jackson
Trail road. At 1 mile on the right is an old gist mill. At 4 miles is a small dirt road on the left (it’s hard to see so just before you get to 4 miles on your odometer start watching). Turn in on dirt road. The dirt road passes a couple of trailer homes and it looks to be a dead end road. The road turns into a grass track. Drive next to the fence for about 1/10 of a mile and you’ll spot the cemetery on the left up the side of the mountain.

The people in this cemetery are listed as “Center Methodist Church Cemetery” in “Jackson GA Cemetery Records by James & Betty Mathis”.

I walked this cemetery in 1990. The graves are listed in the order they are found.

From the Road facing the graveyard:

                          Group of graves outlined in bricks:
        1B                 :      7   7                9:
                           :        7         8         :
1A    2   3    4    5    6 :   10   11         12  13 14:
                           Brick outline stops
           15     16        17  18  19      20
                          Group of graves outline in granite
          27              :    22
                          :21    23 24      25 26
                          Granite outline stops

1A & 1B: two unmarked children’s graves – outlined in old red bricks
2. Joseph W. Justice – 3 Nov 1851 – age 10 mon 3 days
3. Allen Justice 1 Aug 1795 – 17 Nov 1858
4. Susan Justice 13 Jun 1795 – 9 Nov 1881
5. John Gilliam Justice 1 Nov 1828 – 22 Sep 1910
6. Martha A. Venable 14 Jan 1824 – 14 Jun 1867
7. Marker in front of two small graves “Inf Daus of Mr. & Mrs.
J.B. Wallis 8 Jul 1918 – 26 Apr 1917” (no names are on marker)
8. Unmarked baby’s grave
9. Square granite marker – WALLIS
10. Unmarked baby’s grave
11. James C. Veneable 14 Oct 1857 – 26 Sep 1882
12. Virginia W. Wallis 1847-1887
13. John J. Wallis 1837-1914
14. Sarah Wallis 1863-1916
15. Daniel H. Venable 20 Dec 1851-2 Mar 1915
16. Sara F. Venable 29 Mar 1852 – 31 Oct 1925
17. Amla Ruth Daug of AL & ME Venable 10 Oct 1893 – 20 Feb 1894
18. Mollie Venable, wife of AL Venable 26 Jul 1853 – 5 Jan 1940
19. A.L. Venable 19 Mar 1849 – 3 Oct 1901
20. Mattie Venable 1 Jan 1876 – 7 Apr 1926
21, John R. Flanigan (no other info)
22. Large Flanigan marker (no other info)
23. Allen M. Flanigan 21 oct 1863 – 2 Oct 1909
24. Effie R. Flanigan 9 Nov 1870 – 1 Jan 1945
25. Susan M. Flanigan 14 May 1828 – 11 Jan 1904
26 Mary Justice 26 Feb 1834 – 10 Oct 1907
27. WH Brooks 10 Apr 1870 – 9 Mar 1941

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